An accusation that an employee BROKE THE LAW means the employee BROKE THE LAW because employers never lie and say an employee BROKE THE LAW when they didn’t in order to fire the employee if the CBA would prevent them from doing so otherwise.

Oh, so you’re like a first year law student? Because you talk a good game, but your substance comes up rather short. Have you even drafted a contract? Reasonable is often a modifier that is used and has legal significance.

No, it’s really not. The “reasonable person standard” is an OBJECTIVE standard. This is literally beyond debate.

Then you must also think that this “rise of more employer power” will by definition be followed by a rise in more union power as the pendulum swings back. Again, that’s what pendulums do.

But... you’re comparing apples to oranges. People can make a living without unions because we have laws. People can’t make a living without employers (not everyone can be an entrepreneur).

Quality of cars is a weird metric when you’ve been talking about financial health.

I mean, I can swear like a fucking sailor if that will help sway your fucking opinion.

I disagree with literally 100% of what you’ve said. Citing one example means nothing. Yes, there are private unions, but they are dying off because their demands get into the revenge territory.

The union must represent their members regardless of their personal feelings about the member’s conduct.

“unreasonable” isn’t an objective metric.

Uh, yes they have.

I mean, what do you want me to do, give you every single example I’ve ever seen? I don’t have that kind of time. But, shouldn’t it be relatively obvious that union participation has is at like 6.5% (without public unions) and it’s certainly not because union protections have weakened (they’re insanely strong, like…

Because... basically every company with a substantial union presence has gone out of business, required a massive bailout, or is in the red. Sure, there are some exceptions, but they are few and far between.

Oh, I’m a corporate and tax attorney now and I’m happy to help my employer clients. My conscience couldn’t take representing unions anymore. I felt like a terrible person and a horrible lawyer for doing the things I had to do because of the union clients.

Do you want me to go into detail? Because I can. I was part of a union as an employee. I was a union attorney. I am a corporate attorney who represents many employees.

But you see what will happen right? I don’t disagree that employers have the power now. Totally true. But, if unions come into power, they won’t seek to right the wrongs, they’ll seek revenge. They will seek punishment. Which, in turn, will fuel the rise of more employer power.

Because part of any analysis requires input from both sides.

But you watch, the same Republicans that inked this deal will then turn around and say how government is wasteful and use examples like this as “proof” the government cannot do the job.

And how long is your commute? Mine’s 12 minutes into my city and I live in the suburbs. We paid $255,000 in 2014 for a 2600 sqft house in the nicest suburb in the metro area.

And only half a million dollars for a tiny house. What a deal!